World-News

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

08/21/06

Israel suffers from the cult of the offensive, which also afflicts the U.S. military. Believing that grabbing the initiative and taking the fight to the enemy wins wars, both of these militaries have stumbled into the tar pit of fighting wars that only guerrillas could love. Both Israel and the U.S. militaries should have known the potency of defensive guerrilla warfare tactics from their prior experiences in Lebanon and Vietnam. But both were arrogant in thinking that their forces should not 'slum' by training to fight against such rag tag enemies -- even though it was fairly clear that politicians with no military training would be oblivious to the internal contradictions of counterinsurgency warfare and would once again order them to undertake it...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1794


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=counterinsurgency

Common Dreams
by Ramzi Kysia

08/22/06

Last week, I made my first trip to South Lebanon since the war began. Having traveled a fifth of the world, and been present during "wars" in Iraq, Palestine, and New York - I can honestly say that I have never seen such complete devastation in my entire life. The only thing that even comes close are the pictures I've seen from World War II. Much of South Lebanon simply lies in ruin...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0822-30.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

War on terror is a perpetual fight, says minister

A government minister today gave a stark warning that the "war on terror" was a war without end, telling a community meeting that the fight against extremists was likely to be "perpetual".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14659.htm

Former Mossad boss steels West for 'third world war'

He argues that the threat of international terrorism is growing, leaving Western democracies no choice but to team up and aggressively root out terrorists wherever they can be found.

http://tinyurl.com/fmg3r


From Information Clearing House

Who traded the airline stocks before and after and with information from whom?

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12725.asp


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14649.htm

Restarting the 34 Day War
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14652.htm

Israel Must Win
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14656.htm

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The War Was Not Supposed to End This Way

Israel is not better off strategically than it was at the beginning of the war; this in itself is a Hizballah victory. Israel must prepare to win the next round decisively.

http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp546.htm



Gaza swelters through summer without power

Ever since Israel bombed the new power station in the center of the Strip, the heat has become unbearable. The bombing has disrupted the supply of electricity to some 1.5 million residents; food in refrigerators goes bad, the patients in the hospitals groan, industry and work are paralyzed, traffic is gridlocked and there is a severe water shortage.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=753203


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=balance+of+power

The Briton alleged to be the ‘mastermind’ behind the airline terror plot could be innocent of any significant involvement, sources close to the investigation claim.

http://tinyurl.com/pneun


From Information Clearing House

The relationship between Mr Bush and Mr Blair has done untold damage both at home and abroad.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1854244,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By Eric Margolis

Bush, Cheney, Blair - and now Olmert - have demonstrated they have no grasp of military affairs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14627.htm

The “behaviour detection squads” will patrol terminals to monitor the gestures, conversations and facial expressions of passengers. One of their aims will be to spot those who may be concealing fear or anxiety.

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=15934


From Information Clearing House

Every major political issue - Lebanon, Iraq, radicalism - links back to the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1854581,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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The Hypocrisy of Preaching Nonviolence to Palestinians
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/12-0



http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Lebanon+-+Libanon/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+-+Irak+/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=hypocrisy
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Ira+Chernus

The National Council for Scientific Research, said on Sunday that a crater caused by an Israeli munition in Khiam contained "a high degree of unidentified radioactive materials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14638.htm

A delegation of Canadian opposition parliamentarians toured the devastation of southern Lebanon yesterday and slammed Prime Minister Stephen Harper for supporting what two MPs called "crimes against humanity."

http://tinyurl.com/l6vj6


From Information Clearing House

By Stephen Zunes

There is increasing evidence that Israel instigated a disastrous war on Lebanon largely at the behest of the United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14642.htm

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082106I.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

The alliance between George Bush and Tony Blair is in danger after it was revealed that the prime minister believes the president has "let him down badly" over the Middle East crisis. A senior Downing Street source said that, privately, Mr. Blair broadly agrees with John Prescott, who said Mr. Bush's record on the issue was "crap."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082106F.shtml

21.08.06

Auch nach dem Haftbefehl gegen einen Verdächtigen im Zusammenhang mit den angeblichen Kofferbombenfunden von Dortmund und Koblenz geht die Debatte um eine "Verbesserung der inneren Sicherheit" weiter. Unions-Fraktionsvize Wolfgang Bosbach forderte am Montag die Wiedereinführung der Kronzeugenregelung. Sicherheitspolitiker der Union sprachen sich für den Einsatz bewaffneter Zugbegleiter aus. Bosbach sagte: "Wir müssen dringend Sicherheitslücken schließen, über die schon seit Jahren diskutiert wird." Natürlich gebe es im Kampf gegen den Terror kein Allheilmittel. Die Anti-Terrordatei sei aber ein wichtiges Element. Darüber hinaus müssten die Sicherheitsbehörden personell und technisch besser ausgestattet werden.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14257

Verdächtig wirkende und aussehende Männer durften in einem britischen Flugzeug nicht mit, weil Touristen aus Folge der von Terroristen, Medien und Politikern geschürten Panik Angst hatten - Update: Der in Kiel festgenommene Libanese studierte nicht Mechatronik.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23375/1.html

http://www.labournet.de/krieg/zgk.html



Das neue ABC des deutschen Krieges

„“Nach Ende der Ost-West-Konfrontation ist Europa in eine Phase eingetreten, in der sich der Frieden in geringerem Maße als früher durch Kriegsverhütung gewähren läßt.” Denn: “Der Krieg behauptet sich nach wie vor als Instrument im Arsenal der Politik.” Krieg ist Frieden. So lasen es Anfang der 90er Jahre die Soldaten der Bundeswehr. Jahrelang war ihnen eingeredet worden, sie leisteten Dienst in der größten Friedensbewegung des Landes, die mittels “Abschreckung” Krieg abwende und Frieden stifte. (Zitiert nach “Information für die Truppe”, Januar 1992 und Mai 1991). Das neue ABC der Bundeswehr hat zu ungeahnten Verdrehungen und Verballhornungen unserer Sprache geführt. Um die wirklichen Absichten und Handlungen zu vertuschen, werden ständig neue Begriffe erfunden, alte werden stillschweigend abgeschafft, uminterpretiert. Aus Krieg wird Friedenschaffung, aus Friedenssicherung militärische Krisenbewältigung. Die ZgK stellt das Kriegs-ABC der Militärs vor, das weitgehend Eingang in die Medien fand…“ Artikel von Ulrich Sander http://www.labournet.de/krieg/kriegsabc.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. August 2006

Israelische Organisationen bitten um Unterstützung inhaftierter Kriegsdienstverweigerer

„Die israelischen Organisationen New Profile und Yesh Gvul berichten, dass sich viele Soldaten und Reservisten der israelischen Armee dem Kriegseinsatz im Libanon entzogen haben und Hunderte ihn verweigerten. Mindestens zehn Verweigerer sind derzeit inhaftiert. Weitere müssen mit Verfahren rechnen. Dies widerlegt die offiziellen Berichten, dass es eine hohe Motivation gegeben habe, sich für den Libanonkrieg zu melden…“ Pressemitteilung von Connection e.V. vom 18. August 2006 mit Adressen für Protestschreiben und Unterstützungsbriefe http://www.connection-ev.de/Presse/pe_18-08-06.html

Siehe dazu auch:

Ausführliche Berichte über einzelne Verweigerer bei Connection e.V. http://www.connection-ev.de/aktion/israel_index.html

Yesh Gvul ("Es gibt eine Grenze!") ist eine israelische Friedensbewegung, welche die Aufgabe übernommen hat, Soldaten zu unterstützen, die Anweisungen repressiver oder aggressiver Natur ablehnen. http://www.yeshgvul.org/index.asp

New Profile - A Movement For The Civil-ization Of Israeli Society http://www.newprofile.org/


Aus: LabourNet, 21. August 2006

http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_oh_to_be.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4989/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14623.htm



One in Ten Israeli Tanks Destroyed By Hezbollah

The high toll of the war on Israel’s Armored Corps was a shock to top military brass, especially given the fact that Hezbollah has no tanks.

http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=4244


From Information Clearing House

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has said Australians must steel themselves for the fact the "war on terror" could continue for longer than the Cold War.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1719116.htm


From Information Clearing House

Demands for Tony Blair to quit over his support for US President George W Bush in the Middle East are to be taken to Labour's annual conference next month in a direct challenge to his leadership by left-wing Labour campaigners.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1220294.ece


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14620.htm

We were forgotten: the world must hear our story
Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14616.htm



A land reduced to rubble

By Robert Fisk

'These places now look like French villages did after German bombardment during the First World War'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1462
4.htm

http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5512&news_iv_ctrl=1261


Informant: Carlos Rovira

From ufpj-news

Michael O'Leary, the outspoken chief executive of Ryanair, described the new restrictions as "farcical Keystone Cops security measures that don't add anything except to block up airports", as he issued the ultimatum.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,,1853247,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Rauf allegedly taken to Pakistan-Afghan border to point out training camps.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14398423


From Information Clearing House

The sixth Arab-Israeli war, as some have called it, has ended in the first real setback for Israel's deterrent power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14601.htm



US tries to counter Hizbollah rebuilding efforts

Concerned that Hizbollah has an early advantage in rebuilding shattered south Lebanon, the Bush administration is trying to speed up aid and encouraging Arab states to step in quickly, U.S. officials said this week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060817/wl_nm/mideast_usa_rebuilding_dc_1


From Information Clearing House

Behind a destroyed school, Nabil Chrara sat on a pile of rocks, crying his heart out as he watched a tractor dig up the bodies of four members of his family. "They refused to leave the house," he said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14606.htm

By Robert Fisk

Now you see them, now you don't. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed the Litani river yesterday, their officers made it perfectly clear that it would not be the army's job to disarm the Hizbollah. Nor was anyone in Lebanon surprised.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14602.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4981/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The inherent schizophrenia of the "War on Terror" was everywhere in evidence. Britons were told they were facing the greatest threat to the life of the nation since World War II, requiring tireless vigilance, a "huge effort of will and courage" - but they should keep shopping, keep traveling, carry on with their normal lives (as their tanned and jaunty leader was doing).

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081806Z.shtml

Files have been seized by Ministry of Defence police alleging corruption on a massive scale by Britain's biggest arms firm, BAE Systems. Payments totalling more than £60m to prominent Saudis are listed, a far greater amount than has been previously alleged.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,10674,1209014,00.html


From Information Clearing House

"Terrorism" suspect released

Scotland Yard said last night a person arrested as part of its investigation into an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic jetliners has been released.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2006/08/17/1760103-sun.html



Prescott lets slip that some suspects won't face serious charges

John Prescott let slip yesterday that some of the 24 people arrested last week over the alleged transatlantic terror plot will not face serious charges.

http://tinyurl.com/f82jn


From Information Clearing House

Ministers considered "positive profiling" of passengers, carried out before flights, based on "biometric identifiers" such as iris scans or fingerprints.

http://tinyurl.com/lzpob


From Information Clearing House

Israel's assault on Lebanon was planned even before Hizbullah attacked and was aimed at driving a wedge between the different faiths that have been living in harmony in the country, a delegation from the World Council of Churches said on their return from a visit to Beirut and Jerusalem.

http://tinyurl.com/m4xho


From Information Clearing House

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2316298,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh08162006.html


From Information Clearing House

Airport biometric procedures to be extended after alleged terror plot

BY GERRI PEEV

"As we face the threat of mass murder we have to accept that the rights of the individual that we enjoy must, and will be, balanced with the collective right of security and the protection of life and limb that our citizens demand." - JOHN REID, THE HOME SECRETAR.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14596.htm

By John Pilger

Who doesn't believe that 52 Londoners would be alive today had the Prime Minister refused to join Bush in his piratical attack on Iraq? A parliamentary committee has said as much, as have MI5, the Foreign Office, Chatham House and the polls.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14590.htm

by Issandr El Amrani, TomPaine.com

The moderates of the Arab world, who Washington wishes so desperately to woo, have been abandoned.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/17/after_lebanon_whats_left.php

Independent Institute
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

08/16/06

Hezbollah has not been disarmed or defeated; its leadership is intact -- and ever more loquacious on al-Manar, Hezbollah's intractable TV network. The two Israeli soldiers have not been recovered and will now likely be the object of a prisoner swap that Israel said would never happen. Israel's deterrent looks less deterring than four weeks ago. And Tehran's despotic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now a lot more powerful in the eyes of the Muslim masses. Even the pro-western Arab dictatorships that originally rooted for Israel, convinced this was a great opportunity to curb Iran's rise in the region, ended up praising Hezbollah's resistance. Hezbollah has achieved what no Arab army had achieved since 1948, including Egypt and Syria's strong performance in the Yom Kippur conflict of 1973 that eventually led to a settlement over the Sinai...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1790



Bombing to lose

Reason
by James Joyner

08/16/06

Just hours after the cease-fire with Lebanon took effect Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave a speech to the Knesset acknowledging 'deficiencies' in the way the war was conducted. Buffeted by critics on the left and right, he added that, 'We will have to review ourselves in all the battles' and pledged, 'We won't sweep things under the carpet.' At the same time, though, he proclaimed that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had crippled Hezbollah as a 'state within a state as an arm of the axis of evil' and that the 'strategic balance' in the region had shifted against Hezbollah. President Bush agreed, proclaiming, 'There's going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon.' Like O.J. Simpson's search for the real killer, however, Olmert's review begins with a false premise. By any meaningful measure, Israel lost this war...

http://www.reason.com/hod/jj081606.shtml



Lebanon's pain grows by the hour

Independent [UK]
by Robert Fisk

08/17/06

They are digging them up by the hour, the swelling death toll of the Lebanon conflict. The American poet Carl Sandburg spoke of the dead in other wars and imagined that he was the grass under which they would be buried. 'Shovel them under and let me work,' he said of the dead of Ypres and Verdun. But across Lebanon, they are systematically lifting the tons of rubble of old roofs and apartment blocks and finding families below, their arms wrapped around each other in the moment of death as their homes were beaten down upon them by the Israeli air force. By last night, they had found 61 more bodies, taking the Lebanese dead of the 33-day war to almost 1,300...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1219684.ece



Post invasion dread

Common Dreams
by Joyce Marcel

08/16/06

The Israeli attack on Lebanon horrified me, but nothing prepared me for the sense of dread that has come in its wake. Despite my opposition to the attack, my view that it was mad anger and senseless aggression, it never occurred to me that the over-armed and over-amped Israeli military would lose. But they did lose, in too many ways, and in too many ways all too reminiscent of the too many ways that another mighty army, America's, is losing in Iraq...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0816-22.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Most Britons, Muslim and non-Muslim, can see the link between Blair's policies and terrorism.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1844577,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels — up by more than 40 percent from 2005 — despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money, Western officials told The Associated Press.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_re_as/afghan_opium_boom


From Information Clearing House

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Afghan Opium Cultivation Hits a Record

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels - up by more than 40 percent from 2005 - despite hundreds of millions in counter-narcotics money. The increase could have serious repercussions for an already grave security situation, with drug lords joining the Taliban-led fight against Afghan and international forces.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081606S.shtml

The failure of the attack on Lebanon has left the Israeli people less secure, but it has done nothing to dent the generals' power.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,,1844696,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=922

Church body condemns Israel
http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=923

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The Israeli debacle will affect the whole region

By Ilan Pappe

We should expect more bloodshed and more aggressive policies - if not immediately against Syria and Iran, then against the Palestinians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14579.htm

Lebanese deaths, and Israeli war crimes, kept off the balance sheet
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14582.htm

The Persistence Of Fascism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14578.htm

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=17314


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Auch fast eine Woche nach den ersten Festnahmen in Großbritannien ist über die angeblich geplanten Terroranschläge auf Passagiermaschinen erstaunlich wenig bekannt.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23348/1.html

America's Future Foundation
by Daniel Larison

08/13/06

'We are all Lebanese now.' That is not a phrase likely to be heard coming from any American politician or official of either party, much less from any professional pundit. It is the sort of phrase that people utter when they see devastating attacks that kill and maim innocent civilians, but it is not the solidarity extended to the innocent in states that are at war with our government or with one of our allies. As I have read about and seen pictures of the damage from the Israeli campaign in Lebanon, it occurred to me to ask myself why there was not the same sense of goodwill and charity towards the innocent who have suffered death, injury or displacement. I still do not have a satisfactory answer...

http://tinyurl.com/nouz4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent [Uk]

08/15/06

Tony Blair's government has created more than 3,000 new criminal offences during its nine-year tenure, one for almost every day it has been in power.The astonishing tally brought accusations last night of a "frenzied approach to law-making" that contrasts with falling detection rates and climbing levels of violent crime.The figures emerged as police chiefs disclosed they were considering asking ministers for a set of new measures to allow them to impose "instant justice" for antisocial behaviour...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1219484.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guardian [UK]

08/15/06

It was not in horror or panic that thousands of ordinary people contacted the BBC or posted points on the Guardian's Comment is Free website in the hours after last week's terror plot. The mood of many seemed to be one of profound caution, even scepticism, over the allegations of a murderous scheme in which 50 people would try to bring down up to 20 planes between Britain and America. Almost a week later, and after a downgrading of the terrorist threat, what do ordinary voters now think of those excitable early briefings by John Reid, the home secretary, and Scotland Yard's dramatically voiced belief that it had foiled 'mass murder on an unimaginable scale?' Are people still sceptical?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1851078,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"The war in Lebanon may stop, but I doubt it, for never in history has Israel respected a single resolution issued by the Security Council," wrote columnist Salah Montassir in Egypt's government daily al-Ahram.

http://tinyurl.com/ekgf2


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0815-06.htm

Desert of Trapped Corpses Testifies to Israel's Failure
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0815-21.htm

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52 percent of Israelis: IDF failed

A Globes-Smith survey published on Monday showed that the majority of Israelis (52 percent) believe the IDF was unsuccessful in its Lebanon offensive.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3291214,00.html


From Information Clearing House



Lebanon pact disappoints U.S.

Bush administration wanted Israeli forces to destroy Hezbollah.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14562.htm



America's one-eyed view of war
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14561.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4964/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news